Torry Harris and Layer 7 Announce Strategic Partnership

LONDON—October 1, 2009—Torry Harris Business Solutions (THBS) today announced a global partnership with Layer 7 Technologies, the leader in SOA security and governance. As a strategic service partner, Torry Harris will provide deployment, integration and support services for Layer 7 products in the SOA Management, Governance, Security & Integration space.

The Torry Harris initiative of building strong partnerships and engagement models are key to helping customers in their adoption of enterprise SOA. New partnerships help develop creative solutions, that address the constantly changing & evolving business needs.

Layer 7 Technologies helps organizations address their security, visibility & governance issues by enabling them to monitor, adapt & control their Web Services, no matter where they originate, in the enterprise or in the cloud. Selected as a “Leader” in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets*, Layer 7’s SecureSpan™ family of XML appliances feature sophisticated runtime governance, agent-less Web services management and industry-leading XML security.

Torry Harris Business Solutions is a “Leader” in the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) offerings and maturity category, as per The Forrester Wave™**.According Forrester, “THBS specializes in SOA and integration-centric projects, and hence has deep experience in this type of engagement. Its large offshore development facility in India combined with strong program and project management capabilities as well as the firm’s agile development capabilities mean that THBS can deliver solutions using SOA quickly and cost-effectively. Clients were highly satisfied with the integrator’s work.”

With the Layer 7 Enterprise Service Manager & Torry Harris’s own SOAizer ™ tool, customers have the unparalleled advantage of monitoring, measuring & reporting on service level agreements (SLA’s) using an agentless management system, in real time. This partnership will also provide the balance that customers are always looking for to improve speed & simplifying the implementation of advanced security for SOA.
“We are excited to partner with Torry Harris to provide customers with rapid SOA governance solutions” says Dimitri Sirota, VP of Channels and Alliances at Layer 7 Technologies. “Both companies are individually recognized industry Leaders and together we will deliver unmatched value to customers across Europe and globally.”
Says Ashwin Krishna, COO, Torry Harris Business Solutions, “Strategically we are one of the few to give our customers unprecedented access to dynamic new models & creative solutions through active partnerships. This is a win-win situation for our customers considering an enhanced global delivery capability”

About Layer 7 Technologies
Layer 7 Technologies is the leader in SOA security and governance. Founded in 2003, Layer 7 sells the SecureSpan™ family of XML appliances that feature sophisticated runtime governance, agent-less Web services management and industry-leading XML security. Layer 7 helps organizations address their security, visibility and governance issues by enabling them to control, monitor and adapt their Web services, no matter where they originate – in the enterprise or in the cloud. Layer 7 is positioned in the “Leader” quadrant in Gartner, Inc.’s Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets*. For more information, visit us at www.layer7tech.com.